Re: Plextor px-708a and k3b

Eric Tanguy wrote:

Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:00 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:43 -0700, Mick Mearns wrote:

Hello;
 When I fire up k3b and go to:
settings->Configure k3b->Devices

It says that the drive will not write DVD+R(RW)S
That is not correct, it does and works under XP.
I upgraded the BIOS to 1.10 with the same result.

What does "cdrecord -prcap" say?

That reports what the drive says it's capable of doing.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have the same problem.
The result is sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom1 -prcap
Password:
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: '/dev/cdrom1'
devname: '/dev/cdrom1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code
version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-708A '
Revision : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

  Does read CD-R media
  Does write CD-R media
  Does read CD-RW media
  Does write CD-RW media
  Does read DVD-ROM media
  Does read DVD-R media
  Does write DVD-R media
  Does not read DVD-RAM media
  Does not write DVD-RAM media
  Does support test writing

So it seems that device is not weel recognized.
Eric

I think it may be that cdrecord doesn't report DVD+R(W) capabilities at all. Having just tried "cdrecord -prcap" on my own drive (which I believe to be capable of writing DVD+R(W)), there again is no mention of DVD+R(W). I've never actually tried writing that type of media.

Does growisofs work? It's part of the dvd+rw-tools package and it is supposed to understand DVD+R(W) media properly (see also http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ for lots of technical discussion).

Paul.